Rick Yancey Quotes
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We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.
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And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime. That is not the color of red at all.
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I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me.
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Time for the world to end.
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I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.
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It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.
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You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.
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How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!
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It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.
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It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.
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It's an either/or world now.
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A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.
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I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.
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Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.
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I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.
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She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all
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There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
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I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.
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Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.
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That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.
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There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.
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And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.
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The world is a clock winding down.
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Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.
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Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.
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Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him. "Um. Define okay." (Ben) "Okay means you're not bleeding to death." "I'm okay.
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I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.
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Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry." He did not say what the best way was.
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And in more than half the pictures, she isn't looking at the camera; she's looking at him. Not the way I would look at Ben Parish, all squishy around the eyes. She looks at Evan fiercely, like, This here? It's mine
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It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.
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